OBlisk cake-php in the corporate arena

OBlisk - The successful use of CakePHP with SQL Server in the corporate arena

What is OBlisk? A software tool that manages the company's strategy by following indicators and initiatives. A system that facilitates a company's strategic element reporting. A company dashboard used for trend tracking, goal comparison and cause-effect analysis on its strategy or operation.

The Challenge It took us about six months to get approval to incorporate CakePHP into the infrastructure of our ﬁrst customer. We had to test OBlisk against other legacy systems in order to show that there were no conﬂicts. Their key request was to get OBlisk connected to SQLServer... MySQL was out of the question.

Environment Background Written in 2008 using CakePHP 1.2 RC3, then upgraded to CakePHP 1.2.5. OBlisk is using Prototype JS (looking forward to implement jQuery). To ﬁt our clients needs, we developed OBlisk using SQL Server 2000. The app is running on IIS6 using FastCGI and Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite 3. We are hosting some OBlisk installations in AWS and others directly on the Client's servers.

Which Cake "functionalities" is using OBlisk? Auth ACL I18N Email Tree Behaviour (we implemented a new one that we call sub-tree behaviour)

Some SQL Server topics We are using the CakePHP built-in driver. Our development environment has SQL Server 2000, but our clients are running in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. We are using only basic functionality of SQL Server like views and store procedures. We only had to change a little piece of code in the driver to ﬁx a pagination issue.

The Success OBlisk is used by more than 10 clients in Latin America, the ﬁrst of them is using it since 2008 http://tinyurl.com/2f755pr No Issues or problems related to the datasource found in 2 years of use. We found in #CakeFest that is not common to use CakePHP with SQL Server and we didn't know that!!

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our future... All of our projects are built in CakePHP. CakePHP has become our principal tool for development. We are coding on the new tendencies of using CakePHP plugins to improve code reusing. We use the best web design patterns to improve user experience.

our future... We build highly customizable applications. We code thinking in high portability and IT environment independency. Our consultant background allow us a better understanding of client needs that is translated in applications that our clients just love. We are huge CakePHP fans!

Get in touch with us... we are more than happy to share our experience! http://www.obliskstrategies.com http://www.piedradigital.com @piedradigital

OBlisk cake-php in the corporate arena

by piedradigital on Sep 13, 2010

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